Unknown Broadcast | Ghost Ships, Death Cards, Buried Bodies, and Fool’s Gold

Unknown Broadcast | Ghost Ships, Death Cards, Buried Bodies, and Fool’s Gold

From Weekly Spooky: Horror Stories & Scary Tales by Henrique Couto | Scary Stories & Horror Expert

July 12, 2026 · 2h 13m

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The episode features four old-time radio horror stories involving ghost ships, secret societies, and murder mysteries.

Unknown Broadcast returns with four old-time radio horror stories, classic OTR suspense, vintage radio mystery, and eerie anthology drama pulled from somewhere beyond the static. Tonight’s transmission begins aboard a deserted ghost ship, where the Annabella is found adrift with warm meals, a set table, and not a living soul on board. Then Escape invites us into a gentleman’s nightmare of cream tarts, secret clubs, death cards, and impossible exits. After that, Suspense takes us to a debt-ridden dude ranch where a missing guest, a forged check, and a body in a rumble seat turn yesterday’s confusion into tonight’s murder mystery. Finally, The Whistler follows a quiet bank teller whose perfect long-term theft becomes a perfect trap. 🔱 “Sea Fever” — CBS Radio Mystery Theater / Ian Martin The Annabella should be an ordinary merchant ship, but bad luck clings to her from the start. A ruthless captain guards his mysterious wife, sailors vanish, whispers of mutiny rise, and the sea begins to feel less like water than judgment.🃏 “The Young Man with the Cream Tarts” — Escape / Robert Louis Stevenson A bored prince follows a strange young man handing out cream tarts and discovers a…

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